Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics: Recent submissions
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Tying the knot between faculty development and educational change in clinical settings
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2021-10-27)Clinical workplaces offer important learning experiences for the next generation of health professionals, and clinicians serving as supervisors and educators are a critical determinant of the quality of learning in these ... -
Just responsibilities? On responsibility for health in Swedish healthcare priority setting
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2021-10-22)The overarching aim of this project is to explore, empirically as well as philosophically, the arguments for and against making Swedish healthcare priority setting decisions sensitive to patients’ degree of responsibility ... -
A view from the top : the local politico-administrative leadership in implementing evidence-based practice in social services
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2021-09-30)Background: Evidence-based practice is a way to integrate three knowledge sources into decision-making: research evidence, professional expertise, and client preferences and experience. It is argued that evidence-based ... -
From in-situ simulation to beyond : improving paediatric trauma care
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2021-09-08)Background: In-situ-simulation (ISS) has been adopted across the globe as an educational tool to enhance the quality of care provided to severely injured children. As an intervention that trains individuals where they work, ... -
Enterprise within the enterprise : a study of management and performance in a public health care delivery organisation
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2021-06-01)Background: The challenges in healthcare are an everyday struggle for managers. Efficiency and responsiveness of public sector services have been of interest over the past decades. Different reforms have been launched. One ... -
Making use of patient-reported outcome measures in health care : the case of EQ-5D in the Swedish national quality registries
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2021-05-27)Introduction: Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) have been widely used in clinical trials and research, for example to monitor the health of specific populations or to evaluate treatment effects. In the Swedish ... -
Studio DöBra : creating spaces for engaging with end-of-life issues and interacting across generations through community-based arts activities
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2021-05-18)Background: Studio DöBra was a community-based arts initiative about dying, death, and loss, involving children (9 years old) and older adults (most 80+) as participants. The goals were to support community engagement with ... -
Hips don't lie : the use of benchmarking and register data to assess the performance of orthopaedic care
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2021-05-05)Background: Today’s healthcare systems face challenges involving rising need and demand for healthcare as well as concerns about cost containment, misuse of medical services and unwarranted variations in medical practices. ... -
Dying to talk : methods and tools for conversations about dying, death and advance end-of-life care planning
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2021-04-15)Introduction: Advance care planning has been described as a process of reflection and discussion about values and preferences for future end-of-life care. In Sweden, advance care planning is rarely systematically practiced ... -
Finding common ground : patient-centered care and self-management support of multimorbidity in primary health care
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2021-03-30)Background: Patient-centered care is associated with improved health outcomes and increased care satisfaction and is a target for health care internationally. An important component of patient-centered care is patient-centered ... -
Health-related quality of life of different patient groups in Swedish national quality registers : longitudinal studies of EQ-5D data and application of different value sets
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2021-03-02)Background: EQ-5D data on patients’ health-related quality of life (HRQoL) are collected in roughly 40% of about 100 National Quality Registers (NQRs) in Sweden. The aim of the thesis was to increase knowledge on the use ... -
From patient to person : perspectives on the role of quality data, patient experience and patient involvement in the improvement of chronic care
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2021-02-18)Introduction. Healthcare systems in many countries face numerous challenges including the increase in the number of chronic health conditions, the expectations that significant advances in healthcare and technology imposes, ... -
The burden of back pain : evaluation of costs and health outcomes
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2020-11-27)Background: Back pain is a leading cause of disability in the world. Beyond the negative impact on people’s health and quality of life, back pain is associated with substantial costs both within and outside the health care ... -
Overlooking health acculturation : a grounded theory study illustrating the complexity of intercultural consultation in Swedish primary care
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2020-11-24)Background: Intercultural consultations are perceived as complex by physicians and when asked why, ‘cultural differences’ are often mentioned. With increasing patient diversity in primary care, because of increasing global ... -
Transforming medical competency into medical management capability : developing physician leaders by finding management in medicine
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2020-10-16)Background: Management thinking has made inroads into health care, but the relationship between medicine and management is often described as one of competing logics. Given a recognized need for bridging the two logics, ... -
Entrance to and advancement within the Swedish medical labour market for physicians with a medical degree from outside the European Union
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2020-10-01)Background: Many physicians who migrate wish to continue practicing medicine in their destination country. However, they may meet barriers and obstacles that prolong the process of entering and advancing within the destination ... -
Will diabetes care move closer to rural patients in China? Assessing the impact of an educational intervention for type 2 diabetes among patients and health care professionals in rural China
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2020-09-22)Aim: The overall aim of this PhD thesis was to increase knowledge on the feasibility and impact of an educational intervention to shift the management of type 2 diabetes mellitus from hospitals to primary health care ... -
Counting what counts : time-driven activity-based costing in health care
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2020-04-17)Introduction: Patients with multiple chronic conditions consume over 40% of health care resources. The si- loed nature of the health care system exacerbates these costs, and integrated care solutions are required to ... -
Paving the way : the second generation of e-patients, their experiences, actions and driving forces
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2020-04-16)Background: E-patients are described as patients and informal caregivers who are empowered, equipped, enabled and engaged, and use digital solutions for their self-care and in healthcare contexts. Self-care can be understood ... -
Pharmacoepidemiology and health economics of adherence to pharmaceutical fracture prevention
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2020-04-06)Background: Osteoporosis is a disease characterized by weak bone, affecting hundreds of millions of people worldwide, predominantly postmenopausal women. The main clinical consequence of the disease is bone fractures and ...